Covington Catholic High School video still available!

[MineralMan]

It got pulled from YouTube, but too late. Here's a link where it won't be taken down:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1846034/Video-Covington-High-School-teachers-lead-pep-rally-students-blackface.html

Note: You can download the .mp4 file from that link. Right click or tap and hold.

[Progressive Law]

1. It's also on Youtube here

[MineralMan]

3. Cool!

I'm going to upload it to Vimeo, so it can be posted on DU again. Tomorrow, though.

[Roland99]

2. Looks more like they're painted head to toe in school colors

Referring to the short YouTube video in first reply

[Ms. Toad]

4. Their school colors are blue and white. n/t

[Roland99]

6. Was a "blackout" event apparently. MANY schools do this in multiple sports

Per NyPost

At one point during the video, a graphic flashes across the screen saying “Blackout 2011” — which users have pointed to as proof of the students’ innocent intentions. There are multiple clips of the “Covington Crazies” donning black, and sometimes blue, face and body paint during various sporting events.

[Ms. Toad]

7. I understand what it was -

I was just responding to your suggestion that black was their school color. It is not, according to their website.

[Roland99]

8. Technicality. What it wasn't was "blackface"

[womanofthehills]

9. Looks like blackface to me

[Roland99]

10. Then you must have not paid any attention to any sports for the last 20 years

[Ms. Toad]

11. If you do more than a cursory look, you'll find that most schools have outright banned,

or advised students not to wear black face paint because those most directly impacted by blackface do not see a substantial difference.

[Roland99]

12. I've only seen one reference. AZ St Univ

And, to me, if it’s part of the school colors, body painting is not racist in any way shape or form

And it’s not uncommon for schools to use colors not part of their normal colors. My alma mater, Univ of Louisville, is red/black but often had “white out” games

Was that reverse racism? No. It’s not. Neither is black body paint all over or wearing all black. Or is Johnny Cash or Roy Orbison now considered racist too?

[BannonsLiver]

5. Hundreds of foaming at the mouth young fascists

It’s a basketball game but that was disturbing. I don’t have kids but if I did there’s no way in hell I’d put them in an environment like that.

[Kingofalldems]

13. Here: